BeefJack writes: "Metacritic have finally allowed users to review Duke Nukem Forever – over four days after the game was released outside North America. After the negative user reactions on the site to Dragon Age II and Portal 2, were Metacritic trying to avoid the controversy of another organised backlash from the public against a game that’s dividing opinion to say the least before it hit US stores?"

I checked the day it came out but it had a lot of negative user scores. They were talking about day one DLC which confused me and almost put me off buying it. But I think the DLC was for PC only and cosmetic.

Meta User Reviews are worthless. You get reviews like, "DIS GAME IZ OFF DA CHAINZZZ 10/10", or "Game looks gay as hell 1/10" Every game has these idiot reviews, from Halo, to Uncharted to Metroid. Meta User Reviews shouldn't ever receive any credibility.

This is the problem with most user-review websites, especially the movie review website imdb. People will vote 10 or 1 to drag a games average user score up or down. 99% of the time, the game is neither of those scores.

This is the very reason I find democracy TERRIFYING. I mean these idiots are allowed to vote in actual elections and what have you-there HAS to be some kind of test both for Metacritic user reviews and to be allowed to vote. On ANYTHING. Otherwise democracy and gaming review aggregation sites are both dead in cred terms.

Shit, these people are freely allowed to have sex and make babies and pass their sub standard genes on to the next generation too(my wife just explained it all to me-I was appallled and am now apoplectic)-what will they do to user generated scores THEN.think of the future and of you OWN kids!

Look at the Metacritic User score for PC gamers. 50+ positive reviews!!! And a majority of the reviews are almost a paragraph long. This is obviously a game that only PC gamers are really going to enjoy.

You are right Democracy is so terrifying. I would much rather have just one person tell me what to do and how to do something.

Why should I have to listen to all these other people's poor opinions when I could have a non-democratic experience and have just one person tell me what is good! Then if I only have to listen to that one person then it won't be so scary for me.

@The Matrix If I make a review for Halo 4 saying "Milked Green Rangerz iz dumb 1/10" please shoot me. The user reviews aren't reviews, they are idiotic comments 99% of the time. Read N4G's user reviews. They actually have thought and substance. You can hate and rate a game a 1/10 all day, but don't write a review like you would write an icanhascheeseburgers meme pic. IZ DAT 2 MUCH TOOO ASK, NO?

@The Matrix Obviously, the professional critics can give better ratings, but for the troll Joe: No, he only give a 0 or 10 rating in any case. Look at this pathetic rating on Portal 2!!

"I was waiting for this game for about a year. I am a big fan of the original portal.Actually the game is OK, but it is not a sandbox anymore like Portal 1. Everything is scripted. If you throw the cube it will 100% fall in the right place, the portal will open in right place, laser beam will hit its target, etc. This is why I do not like portal 2. From the other side, the game is good. A+ high quality puzzle. Levels are hard enough but not too hard. Interesting plot. My mark is 0 only because it is too scripted. I loved portal 1, and I hoped portal 2 would be the same..."

Duke Nukem Forever is basically a huge kidney stone that the game industry has finally passed and now it will not cause us all constant minor pain and we can forget about it. This is not a game release so much as an exorcism.

Now we need to get Colonial Marines, BIA:Furious Four, and Borderlands 2 out and then we can pretend that none of this ever happened.

Duke Nukem Forever is definate game of the year material, & if it doesn't win, the whole system is rigged & screwed. Walking or running down a corridoor & being able to shoot is the biggest inovation in gaming since 3D polygonal graphics. Anyone who disagrees with how great a game duke is, needs to get serious psychiatric evalution immediately & it will more than likely come to fruition that they need to be labotimized A.S.A.P.

Duke nukem forever is getting robbed of a 8.5 score by a majority of the gaming journalist which the game so rightfully deserves that 8.5 score but im sure some duke nukem haters will diagree with me lmfao!...btw power armor is for pussies!

For god's sake, how are Metacritic User Review scores actually news?! Are we about to start looking at them for every game, now? And what about Gamespot user reviews, then? IGN? Gamefaqs? Where does it end?!

Gah, apologies. All I'm trying to say is that no-one ever used to care about user reviews. Why are they so important now?

Why should Metacritic ever matter? I have never in my life went their for reviews on games etc.. Hell i only watch reviews just to see what a site gives a game. The decision if u get the game or not should depend on your own choice not by the hand of someone else.

anyone expecting this game to get really good scores is stupid. look at all the past games most were 7's with like 2 8 games and a 6.5 or something. Duke Nukem has always been about just havin fun and enjoyin the one liners, the babes, and the over the top moments. I went into this game not even caring about the reviews cause i know what to expect and heck im enjoyin it.